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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24
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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24
Prospecting in Texas.

Mr.. w. Fl. Brown, formerly of this
county, but now resident of Gray
son county, Texas, writes the follow
ing letter to Mr.. G. r. Riggs:
1.-THE ground is wet to the bottom
for the first time in two years. Al
though Grayson county made the
best crop of everything this year l
ever saw, every thing is good and at
good prices. Corn is worth 4Oc per
bushel, wheat 75c, oats 33c, pork &c.
Everything Is on a boom. Land has
gone up. I was offered 5000 in cash
for my place of one hundred acres.
81 am through gathering my crop.
i made this year 1lS bushels wheat,
SIC bushels oats, 1900 bushels corn,
.! bales cotton. 1 paid out to make
and gather my crop $50. ! will put
So acres in corn and % in oats next
year. The Farmers Alliance is on a
boom. We have got a grain house
and grocery store at Howe. The Al
lance will take the day. / will send
you one of our papers you can then
see what we are doing, and the way
we do business.
Glove to all my old friends.
"W. III. BROWN"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24
A BAD NASAL ORGAN.

For over four years have been great
sufferer from a terrible form of Nasal Ca.
tarrh. | was greatly annoyed with con.
slant roaring in my head and my hearing
became very much impaired,
The discharge from my nose was profuse
and very offensive, aud my general health
impaired. TRIED most all prominent ply.
sicians, but they did not cure me, and ]
used various advertised preparations with
out benefit.
One day changed to read n remarkable
article written by prominent citizen OF
Athens, Ga. stating that he had been per-
manently cured by the use of eight bottles
of B. B. B.-Botanic Blood Balm. Being
skeptical OH the subject, wrote to him on
the subject and received most encourage
ing answer to the effect that he had been
cured long enough to be thoroughly salts.
fed that no return of the disease would en-.
sue.
| then sent to the drug store OF T. Z.
Smith & Bro, and purchased B. B. B., an d
to my utter establishment and satisfaction
the use of ten bottles has restored my gen.
eral health, stopped the roaring sensation,
entirely healed and cured the nasal catarrh
and am preund to recommend blood
remedy with such powerful curative pro.
perties.
shall continue its use little longer and
feel confident that will he entirely cured
of one of the most obstinate cases of nasal
catarrh in the country.
The business men of our town know Of
my case. N. c. EDWARDS.
Lampssses Springs, Texas, May 1, 1886.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24
Irving College Notes.

Our forefathers cut ruts in this part
of the "moral vineyard" about eighty
years ago, since which time Jealous
and initiative descendants have done
as dad did, with an exceptional de-
Walton on the part of some "young
up-start" who bethought him it
right and proper to give the "wheels
of progress" shove even at the peril
of his good name, his would-be cal
umniators being his "fogyized"
neighbors. But in consideration of
the fewness of the progreSsives in this
section, the pulse of this COM
munity is seldom quickened by
anything novel or strange, hence the
would-be news-hearers must be con-
tent with such things as are eked by
the surrounding circumstances.
Do l expect to meet the expecta-
tions of the news-gathering, gossip
ing readers of the STANDARD in
narrating and commenting upon
commonplace affairs? Well, no. If
any one desires to know how l can
write, knowing that / shall say moth
ing to interest many of my readers, l
answer by reciting fable and allow
ing my readers to make the applica-
ton:
n mole, which be it understood is
a little animal of dull vision and OBJ
fuse sensibilities, once heard of the
invention of spectacles and how they
improved the vision, whereupon he
spared no pains and labor until pair
were secured, which he adjusted to
his little nose only to find himself
benefited in no particular. Chatting
under his disappointment he COM
planned to his old father, who, though
dull-sighted also, had seen more OF
the world, and who kindly told him
that SpectdcIeS were made for men and
not mOles.
Our working men have pretty well
utilized the fine days of the past fall
some blowing and doing other farm
work, and Others hauling logs, lam
Der, etc. Nothing is a better incen
tive to action than an urgent necessi
ty, and as most of our good people
seem to foresee necessity for econO
my and industry for at least one year
they are now a model people. Fru
gality and activity, coupled with {
mild winter, will place the people o
this section above want until anothe
harvest.
Floyd Martin and Israel Hill, Jr.
left last week for the Indian Terri
tory, and the family of +. ID. Hill
left for the same place last Monday
Since it is said to be possible for de
scendants of certain tribes to obtain
homestead in the "Nation," it ha
developed from accumulated evidenc
that we are nearly all Of Indian eS
traction on Collins River.
DIR. Arsey Womack has take
board and lodging at the residence {
Mrs. Tempo Hayes, and offers hi
professional services to a sick an
dying people.
, Prof, Pearson, of McMinnville, hs
+ moved among us with a view of Ell
gaging in teaching. E. B. E.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24
A Novel Business Calendar and Stand

BY far the most novel, convenient,
and valuable business calendar for
1888 is the Columbia Bycicle Calen-
dar and Stand, just issued by the Pope
Manufacturing Company, of Boston
Mass. In this calendar new depart
ure has been made, decidedly unique
and different from any previous at
tempt in calendar construction. The
calendar proper is in the form of a
pad, containing 1865 leaves, one for
each day in the year, to be torn off
daily. The leaves are 81 by q inch
es, and a portion of each leaf is
left blank for memorandum and
the memorandum blank for any
coming day can be turned to
Immediately at any time. The pad
rests upon portable stand, which
takes up little more room than the
pad itself, and when placed upon the
desk or writing-table the entire sur
face of the date leaf is brought direct
ly, and left constantly, before the
eye, furnishing date and memoran-
da, impossible to be overlooked. Be-
side the month, the day of the
month, and the day of the week, the
numbers of the days of the year pass
ed and to come are specified, and up
on each slip appears, as in the previ-
Gus Columbia calendars, quotations
pertaining to cycling from leading
publications and prominent writers
on both sides of the ocean.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24
Wonderful Cures.

w. d. Hoyt & Co., Wholesale and
Retail Druggists of Rome Ca, say
We have been selling DIR. Kings
New Discovery, Electric Bitters and
Bucklen's Arnica Salve for four years.
Have never handled remedies that
sell as well, or give such unusual sat
isfaction. There have been some
wonderful cures effected by these
medicines in this city. Several cases
of pronounced Consumption have
been entirely cured by use of a few
bottles of DR.. Kings New Discovery,
taken in connection with Electric
BittcrS. We guarantee them always.
Sold by Ritcuey Il stroud.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24
Notice.

Owing to the short profits on goods
lean no longer sell them on credit
Hereafter / will sell only for Cash or
barter. Thankful to my friends for
their past favors, hope they will
continue their trade with me under
the new covenant, which is establish
ed on better principles, and / will
sell you goods as low as any one can
afford to sell, for Cash. All persons
indebted to me, either by note OF
account, will please come forward
and settle at once, and begin anew
with the New Year.
G. w. PARKS,
2w Irving College, Tenn.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24

THE National Review of last week
is lurid with invectives against the
saloon men and gamblers of Nash
vile. Mr.. Littleton, the editor Of
the Review, attributes his recent de-
feat for the Mayoralty Of Nashville
to this class, and in the course of a
letter written to his paper from Pitts
burg, he says: "It is probably true
that majority of Republicans in the
State are opposed to the principle of
prohibition, could they believe that
the moral and social ends sought to
be accomplished could be reached by
any other less extreme methods. l
have held with this class. / do not
indorse prohibition as the only rem
edy possible for existing evils. But
there is one thing certain: There
must be an end to saloon domination.
1t has come to this, that the average
Democratic saloonist is not content to
exercise the ordinary prerogatives Of
citizenship and abide, with decency,
the result, but he fancies himself a
boss and with bold potency strives
to dominate in all public affairs. A
logical adjunct of the saloon is the
gambling hell, and the two, in har-
monious combination, usually con-
troll the community in which they
are permitted to exist. | repeat
there shall be an end to this. If pro-
hibitoin be the only remedy, then
am for unconditional prohibition
repeat, also, that l have held and
still hold other less extreme remedies
possible, but no matter what the rem
edy, the evil exists, and am going
into the fight against it to stand un
til ! conquer or die in the honest en-
leavor. will not cavil about The
means of overthrowing it. JUS
simply say the evil shall be over
thrown, and ! have determined thai
if the prohibition crsnks will no
Join me in a moderate, but, as
think, equally effective remedy,
viii join them in their effort To en-
force statutory prohibition. y
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24
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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24
Voorhees, on the Message.

Senator Voorhees,, of Indiana, in a
recent interview with Cincinnati
Enquirer reporter, delivered himself
as follows regarding the Presidents
Message: at is an ascertalned
fact" said he, "that the tax on the
people is more than is needed to bear
the expense of the Government. No
greater grievance than that is set forth
in the Declaration of Independence.
The party or Government that
takes in more money than it needs,
and permits it to lie dead instead of
liberating it and sending it through
the channels of trade, cannot stand,
and ought to be overthrown. On the
main proposition as to the reduction,
there cannot be two opinions. AS
to methods, there may be wide di-
versity. 1t is a sound maxim OF
government to lay the lightest tax
on articles of necessity which all are
compelled to have. l shall not favor
any reduction on the tax on spirits.
might be willing to release the tax
on tobacco, except on cigars and CT.
garettes. These are luxuries, at least
among those who like them.
"a revenue tariff embraces a wide
field of thought. / have been on the
Finance Committee of the Senate
for ten years, and have recently beer
over the whole subject at least once
in committee. In making the reduc
ton which must be made, / woulC
at the same time have an eye to
THE LABOR INTERESTS
And protect them from competition
with the cheaply paid labor. stanC
solidly with both feet on the Chicag,
Democratic platform of 1884. / d'
not regard Mr.. Cleveland as depart
ing from it at all. All this tall
about free trade being embraced il
his message is nonsense or maliciou
partisanship. A great many peopl
use the term free trade withou
knowing or caring what it means
Free trade means no tariff tax:
means the abandonment of Custom
houses, and resort to direct taxa
ton of States. Under such system
Indiana's proportion would be min
or ten millions year. L do nc
think any one wants to try the. eS
pertinent in this or any other State
Cleveland is no more a free-trade
} than | am. He simply wants
, bring taxation within the limits
the needs of the Government, an
the party which resists such propC
, sition will be ground between tn
upper and neither millstones at tn
next Presidential election.",
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

Best SaIvc in the world for Cuts,
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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24

have tried B. B. h, and found 1t great
thing for the blood. Lalso had Rheumatic
Pains and the use Of one bottle OF r. b. B.
has done the work, but ] will finish up on
the second bottle as a clincher. May God
spread it to every one is my prayer.
W. r. Fills.
Brunswick, Ga, April %, 1886.
All who desire full information about the
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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24
Government Sale.

U. S. INTERNAL REVENUE,
DEP'Y COLLECTORS OFFICE, 9TH DIST.
McMinngille, Tenn, Dec. IA, 1887,
ON Monday, December Goth inst, at the
court house door in McMinaville, will sell
to the highest bidder for cash
One bay mare, a one horse wagon and
harness. Seized as the property OF Henry
Rick for violation of Int Rev. law.
JAMES w. IRWIN,
Deputy Collector.
McMinnville, Tenn, Dec. IA, 1887.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24
Blood of a Texan.

For six years have been afflicted with
blood poison, which continued to increase,
while physicians were attempting to cure
me. N
One bottle OF B. b. B. has made me feel
like new man, and am now rapidly re-
covering. w. H. DAVIS.
San Marcos, Texas, May 3, 1886,
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24
NOTICE.

All persons still owing the old firm of
Ross 4 BILEs, either by note or account,
will please come forward and pay off their
Indebtedness at once. We can not and will
not wait any longer. The old business must
be wound up. ROSS d BILES.
am also needing money very bad, and
compelled to collect, and hope all persons
owing me will please come forward and set
tie, as this is the last of the year.
w. S. ROSS.
Increase, Tenn, Dec. 18th, 1887.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24

THE Memphis Avalanche raises
the Nashville Americans ante on
Christmas stories. The Avalanche
offers $40 for the first best, $40 for
second best, and S. for third best
Christmas story written by boy or
girl not over 10 years. The offer is
limited to the school children OF
Memphis.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24

MUCH distress and suffering on ac-
count of the severely cold weather is
reported from the Northwest. In
Kansas several persons have perish
ed for want of fuel and food. A biz
zard has been raging around in the
Northwest for several days, with the
thermometer all the way from zero
to 350 below.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24
DR.. j. b. Ritchey, Agricultural Editor.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE.

We do not publish anonymous commu.
nications under any circumstances. The
real name of the author must accompany
every communication, or else it will be con
signed to the waste basket. We do not pub.
fish the names of correspondents, bul want
them simply as guarantee of good faith.
All calls on candidates, obituaries, trib
utes of respect, etc, are charged for as ad.
without charge, and our friends all over the
county will confer favor by furnishing us
with such as soon after their occurrence as
possible.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24

BREWERS of Chicago are beginning
to feel the effect of prohibition in
Kansas and Iowa, and as a retaliatory
measure, are boycotting barley raised
in or shipped from those states.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

THE holiday number of "Wide
Awake" is on our table, and is the
handsomest and most meritoriOus
periodical for young people we have
ever seen. Wide Awake ranks
among publications for young people
as Harper does among magazines-it
is the leader. Published by ID. 10th
rop Co., Boston, Mass. Send 20 cents
for sample copy.
The Cosmopolitan for December is
on our table, with a varied and in
teresting table of contents. This
magazine has some of the best writ
ers of the age among its contributors,
and in typographical appearance it is
faultless. Its low subscription price
of $500 per year puts it in reach of
many who do not feel able to take the
higher priced magazines. The De-
cember number is replete with
articles of striking interest. Publish
ed by Schlicht & Field, New York.
Central South Advertising Me-
diums " is the title of a newspaper
directory of the four states of Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee,
just issued by The Edwin Alden Co.'s
Newspaper advertising agency, Gin
cinnati. 1t is handy volume of
800 pages, and in addition to a full
list of all the papers and periodicals
published in these four states, with
their character, size, circulation, etc.,
it gives many interesting descrip-
tive articles of the principal cities
and towns. 1t will prove valuable
book to all general advertisers
through this section.
Scribner's Magazine is the first to
reach us for January. With this
number it begins its second year, and
it is marvel of literary excellence
The leading article is "The Man al
Arms" by e. H. and E. w. Blash
field. There is a strong paper on
Municipal Finance" by Clayton G
Hall, and a most instructive anC
entertaining article on "The Grea
Pyramid" by Edward l.. Wilson
Japanese Art, Artists, and Arti
sans" ga Chapter on Dreams" anC
several poems are among the many
other good things in this number
Published by Chas. Scribner's Sons
New York al $500 per year. w
club it with the STANDARD at $3.50
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24

THE first number of the Bell
Buckle Star is on our table, f. H.
Mcdonald, editor and publisher. 1t
is a neat five.column quarto, and
Democratic in politics. We wish it
much success.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24

JOHN S. BARBOUR has been elect
ed U. S. Senator from Virginia to
succeed Riddleberger on March 4th.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24

THE majority of Tennessee Con-
gressmen are in line with the Pres
ident on his message.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24

The Alta CALIFORNIA says: The lat
est monopoly is the estate Pencil
Trust" Pretty soon our trust in God
will be Incorporated and held at fancy
prices.-Opion Democrat.
This would create a more spirited
demand for it than at present exists.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24
Subscriptions Paid.

The following persons have paid the
amounts given on subscriptions to the STAN.
DARD during the week ending at noon Fri.
day, Dee. 20, 1887.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-24
REGISTERED
DEVON CATTLE
FOR SALE

Best strains for Milk and Beef Gales,
yearlings, and two-year-olds. Write for pri-
ces to 'i d. J. gWHITMORE & co.
Manchester, Tenn.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1887-12-18

Mr.. James w. Iiy"tt, who succeeds
NJ. Jordan ~ UuiIrd State, rrra,urrr.
"sHUurl the duties uf that office IL the
lest week Of My, ls1i. Mr.. Hyatt was
born, brought up uud educated i. Nor.
walls, Conn, from winch I.lIc.. he wen,
To New l1Ck ,nI worked IA, Wy up to
rh, position "f cashier o, the bnmsius
house II L"Srnud II. LJc, wood ( Cu..n
"ns,iI1u whicu n- hrid at iIr time 81 len
iuHs Hru WIS at the lruuE ut IT. power
aHi prosperity. Ia 1914 Mr. nyurt re-
'ErmrI - No" IS nui TOOK rLI5.,,. of
the Norw.hS Horse COupan, ", ii, rry,-
'Iemt AMI nau,ser. lie rus aimee L~cI.
director uud prra:d"ut oi 'Lv DunUury
""d SorwHIa Railroad Company; Ill
rector An Uvc-prr ,Idr4t ui the National
bank Of Nor""IK; twice a iurn,Urr oi
inv House Of Representatives AMI oucc
member "I tue tuuu.,Uout r.ttr